Suspects in Macon high school rape case cleared; now alleged victim faces charges for false report
In the setting-the-record-straight department, the alleged rape at Northeast High School in Macon did not occur, according to police, who say now that the victim made up the story and that any sex that occurred in the school restroom was consensual.
All rape charges against the seven Northeast High School student suspects have been dropped, and instead the young woman has been charged with falsifying the report that she was raped.
According to the Macon Telegraph:
Inconsistencies arose during the Macon police investigation of an alleged rape in a Northeast High School restroom Jan. 19. When police questioned the girl Friday, she admitted that she had made untrue statements to her mother and police.
She was charged with a felony, making false statements to law enforcement, and a misdemeanor, falsely reporting a crime.
Authorities have said sex acts did take place in the restroom. No further charges are anticipated against the teens, Winters said. Contacted Monday, Bibb school officials would not discuss disciplinary action for specific students, citing federal student privacy laws.
According to Bibb County’s student code of conduct, however, engaging in sexual conduct on campus is a Level V offense — the code’s most serious. Level V offenses require an office referral, parental notification and a conference with the student, an administrator and a parent or guardian.
Students may also face long-term suspension — more than 10 days — as well as referral to an alternative education program, expulsion and other consequences. Randy Howard, the system’s chief legal counsel, said he could not discuss details about how the school system generally handles other cases of sexual conduct on its campuses either, citing the same student privacy laws.
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
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February 15th, 2012
11:28 am
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Don't Tread
February 15th, 2012
11:31 am
Yet another product of “California Parenting”! (Not the brightest bulb on the strand, either.)
Colonel Jack
February 15th, 2012
4:32 pm
Unfortunately, thanks to the media (a part of which I was for 35 years), “innocent until proven guilty” *only* exists in a court of law. The court of public opinion, on the other hand, renders its judgments with alarming speed – and usually based on either no evidence or extremely flimsy evidence. Once the real facts come in, it’s rare that the court of public opinion reverses its decisions. And there’s no appeal available from that particular court.
Observer
February 15th, 2012
5:07 pm
Good Mother, please take especial notice of Colonel Jack’s comment at 4:32 pm. Casually and unjustly smearing others is an evil thing to do, and someday the one who does this will be smeared thus too.
“He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword……….”
To Observer
February 15th, 2012
8:07 pm
“He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword……….”
Are you threatening me, Observer? Sure sounds like it.
I am not “escared’ of you, Observer and I don’t take ‘especial” notice of anything.
Sheesh. It’s a post on a blog, Observer. You really need to take yourself less seriously.
Good Ma
Dr. Proud Black Man's Proclaim
February 15th, 2012
8:11 pm
Dr. Proud Black Man proclaims “Sounds like the system worked good. The accusation turned out to be false and the girl was charged with lying and the charges were dropped against the boys.”
The system worked “good.” Huh?
Eight kids were out of class for an hour and no one noticed.
YOu call this system good?
Crazy.
Good ma
To Science teacher
February 15th, 2012
8:19 pm
You say “What I can’t tell until after class is over is whether the students who were only absent for my class were signed out because they were sick, had a doctor’s appointment, etc., or whether they are skipping. ”
Your front office isn’t doing their job. In my high school more than twenty years ago…without a computer and with only a red pen and ahem…NO photocopy machine the homeroom teacher took roll/role and parents were immediately called to determine if the child was supposed to be out of school for the day or if they were skipping. That list was (get this) MIMEOGRAPHED on an antiquated machine and passed around so that subsequent teachers could use it to compare their lists to their roll/role calls for the day.
During the fivve minute break between classes my principal and assistant principal were walking the halls and hurrying kids to their classes and yes, walking into the boys rooms to check for stagglers…female office assistants checked the girls restrooms.
it’s simple. it’s easy. it’s feasible in a system in which the teachers, the adults, actually gave a r&ts ass about the innocent lives of children.
May God bless all of them. No one was ever hurt in my poor rural high school because we had human beings who cared about us.
Good Day,
Good Mom
Observer
February 15th, 2012
8:58 pm
@ GM. “The sword” is also known as karma.
And it’s not just “a post on a blog.” It’s your continual smearing of other posters with whom you disagree: catlady at length, Shar, Prof, HS Public Teacher, all the past teachers you’ve told to quit the profession….You’re the one who takes yourself too seriously.
To Observer
February 15th, 2012
9:35 pm
I am not threatened by your “live by the sword and die by the sword” crapola.
If you don’t like my posts, just ignore them, Observer. Let the Page Down key be your friend.
Good Mother
Dr. Proud Black Man
February 15th, 2012
10:23 pm
@busybody mom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFEY9RIRJA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Not so Proud Black Man
February 16th, 2012
5:09 am
Hey not so proud, you often say you have your finger on the pulse of the black community. For whatever ills urban black children have, you always have the answer — always racism against black children.
Yet, when I asked you why black boys shunned education and called it “acting white” you said “Am I my brother’s keeper?” and miraculously, you had no answer.
Whenever the black children have a problem it is always, always the fault of white people and you say you know it all…then when a problem is obviously black, you retreat and say you don’t know because you are way way out in the suburbs.
you can’t have it both ways, not so proud black man.
If ou are so proud of your race, you need to move back to where your race is and find out WHY black children are shunning education — and help your race. Otherwise, you have no right to call yourself “Dr. Proud Black man.”
If you are proud to be black, then help the black children. Find out why they are shunning education and calling it “acting white.” and do something about it — your youtube posts poking fun at me do nothing to help the race you claim you are so proud to be a part of — from afar — whilie living among the white people in the suburbs.
duplicity that name is Dr. Proud Black Man.
Good Ma
Boys will be Boys, right Maureen?
February 16th, 2012
8:12 am
Maureen’s comments about girls are sexixt and unacceptable. She claims that a teenaged girl should not want to have sex in a school bathroom and complains that a teenaged girl should not want to have sex in a dirty ally.
What about the boys?
What does Maureen put all the judgement on the girls in these stories?
If girls should not want to have sex in a school bathroom, then BOYS should also not want to have sex in a school bathroom.
Maureen’s attitude reflects our nation’s double=standard for girls and women.
Wome are supposed to be prissy and ladylike and wanto to be clean and quiiet..but it’s OK for boys to be raunchy and dirty.
When we create such blatant sexist stereotypes we give boys the OK to act like fools.
It is no wonder that boys and men have casual sex and abandon their partners and their children — it is because of double-standards that Maureen and others proclaim.
What is particularly heinous is that Maureen is a member of the profession known as a “journalist” and is trained to be objective in her reporting.
Maureen, your sexist comments are both inappropriate and very unprofessional. You owe all of us an apology.
Observer
February 16th, 2012
10:21 am
@ Maureen. Could you please observe your requirement that all bloggers identify themselves by a name at the top left, rather than just posting long nameless rants? It’s very hard to use the Page Down key when needed–upon immediately identifying that the cyberbaiter and cyberbullier is Good Mother. And who wants to read through the long, inane, self-righteous messages like the one here at 8:12 am?
Don't Feed the Good Mother Troll
February 16th, 2012
12:20 pm
Looks like folks have forgotten the lesson well-learned from past “Get Schooled” blogs.
Dr. Proud Black Man
February 16th, 2012
6:37 pm
Especially that trifling broad who goes by the name of good ma lol!